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Tue, Jan 30, 2024·SAP Center at San Jose, San Jose

Seattle Kraken 0, San Jose Sharks 2

Expected result

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 73% of the time.

SJS winsSEA wins

By period

Goals and shots on goal in each period.

TeamP1P2P3Total
SEA01305014032
SJS0305214222

Goals, with shots on goal in grey.

Scoring

Every goal, with the change it made to the home team's win probability.

  1. P3 7:27SJSMarc-Edouard VlasicGWGAssists: Ty Emberson, William Eklund · Wrist, 0.01 xG0–1
  2. P3 19:39SJSJan RuttaENAssists: William Eklund · Wrist, 0.30 xG0–2
Penalties (4)
  1. P1 8:06SJSShakir Mukhamadullin: Tripping2 min
  2. P2 9:25SEAJamie Oleksiak: Holding2 min
  3. P3 3:45SJSLuke Kunin: Fighting5 min
  4. P3 3:45SEAWill Borgen: Fighting5 min

Replay

Watch the game unfold on the ice: every shot, hit, turnover and faceoff appears as it happened, then fades. Drag the timeline to jump; goals are marked on it.

SEA00 SOG · 0.0 xG

20:00

P1

0.0 xG · 0 SOG0SJS
46% to win54% to win
← SEA attackSJS attack →
  1. P1 20:00Beniers won the faceoff against Sturm
  • Goal
  • Shot
  • Miss
  • Block
  • Hit
  • Takeaway
  • Giveaway
  • Faceoff
  • Penalty

The numbers

Team totals, side by side.

SEASJS
32Shots on goal22
3.8Expected goals2.3
69Shot attempts46
28Faceoffs won27
1Power plays1
7Penalty minutes7
13Hits21
14Blocked shots17
6Giveaways5
9Takeaways12

Line combinations that worked

Model-based

Each team's forward lines and defence pairs at 5-on-5 (two minutes or more together), best first by expected goals for minus against.

Seattle Kraken

Forward lines

  1. bestEberle – Tatar – McCann11:32

    xG 0.91–0.22 (80%)attempts 12–6goals 0–0

  2. Burakovsky – Wennberg – Tanev9:58

    xG 0.50–0.02 (96%)attempts 7–10goals 0–1

  3. Gourde – Bjorkstrand – Tolvanen11:51

    xG 0.85–0.52 (62%)attempts 18–8goals 0–0

  4. Schwartz – Kartye – Beniers11:10

    xG 0.25–0.37 (40%)attempts 10–11goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestLarsson – Dunn18:28

    xG 1.22–0.43 (74%)attempts 20–15goals 0–0

  2. Schultz – Dumoulin12:43

    xG 1.20–0.68 (64%)attempts 21–11goals 0–1

  3. Oleksiak – Borgen15:05

    xG 0.66–0.42 (61%)attempts 14–11goals 0–0

San Jose Sharks

Forward lines

  1. Bailey – Carpenter – Zadina7:38

    xG 0.36–0.47 (43%)attempts 11–8goals 0–0

  2. Duclair – Barabanov – Eklund12:46

    xG 0.49–0.65 (43%)attempts 13–12goals 1–0

  3. Couture – Hoffman – Zetterlund10:55

    xG 0.21–0.54 (28%)attempts 6–12goals 0–0

Defence pairs

  1. bestAddison – Okhotiuk7:38

    xG 0.28–0.13 (68%)attempts 6–6goals 0–0

  2. Vlasic – Emberson12:09

    xG 0.40–0.57 (41%)attempts 10–12goals 1–0

  3. Rutta – Mukhamadullin10:34

    xG 0.32–0.84 (28%)attempts 10–11goals 0–0

How the game flowed

Model-based

Chance quality for each side, minute by minute, with pressure underneath.

Expected goals flow

Running total of expected goals for each team. Steep climbs are spells of pressure; dots are goals. Shaded bands mark power plays (team colour), 4-on-4 or 3-on-3 (grey) and empty nets.

SJS 2.3 xGSEA 3.8 xG
01234P1P2P3EndxG

Tempo: attempts, hits and takeaways per minute

SJSSEA

Win probability

Model-based

How each goal and each minute changed the likely winner.

Win probability

SJS's chance of winning through the game. Above the middle line SJS is favoured, below it SEA. Dots are goals.

Excitement 1/100 · #1305 of 1312 this seasonSwing 0.61 · 2 goals in reachComeback index 52% (winner's lowest chance)
SEA 100%5050%50SJS 100%P1P2P3EndBiggest swing +29 pts

Did the better team win?

Every shot replayed 10,000 times, scoring with its expected-goal probability.

Based on shot quality alone, Seattle Kraken win this game 73% of the time.

SJS winsSEA wins

Simulated goal difference (SJS − SEA), 10,000 replays

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The outlined bar is the actual result (excluding the shootout).